10 Explosive Facts About the Trinity Nuclear Test

Eighty years after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico, we're still feeling the political and scientific ...
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Review: Emily Seyl’s ‘Trinity’ a fascinating, troubling photographic record of Oppenheimer’s bomb

TRINITY: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test. By Emily Seyl. University of Chicago Press. 334 pages. $39. From a complex in a remote expanse of New Mexico, a team of scientists led ...
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The nuclear test that scientists feared might ignite Earth’s atmosphere

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...